Giovanni Sartori

Giovanni Sartori      ( political scientist)
Born	13 May 1924  Florence,  Italy
Died	4 April 2017 (Age 92)  Florence,  Tuscany,  Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Florence
Interests	•  “democracy” •  Eurocommunism
US-oriented Italian political scientists. Bilderberg/1985.  Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities In office 1979 - 1994 Employer Columbia University Attended Bilderberg/1985.  Professor of Political Science In office 1976 - 1979 Employer Stanford University  Dean of the Department of Political Science In office 1966 - 1976 Employer University of Florence

Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of "democracy", political parties, and comparative politics. He held faculty positions at the University of Florence, European University Institute, Stanford University and Columbia University, and attended the 1985 Bilderberg meeting.

Education

Sartori was born in Florence in 1924. He graduated in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence in 1946.

Career

An early grant brought him to New York in 1949-50. He returned many times United States in the 1960s, first as a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard (1964-65), and subsequently as a recurrent Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale between 1966 and 1969.

In 1969 He founded Italy's first Political Science department and in 1971 led the founding of the Italian Political Science Journal, of which he remained director until 2004, when he sold it to the Italian Society of Political Science.

The year 1976 marked a turning point in his life: "annoyed by the protest demagoguery of the students and especially by the mediocrity of the Italian teachers, the asinocracy, he decided to move to America in '76, where he taught most of his life".

He was a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Until the end of his life he taught at various universities.

He was Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University (USA) from 1979 to 1994.

Influences

"At Harvard I met, or got to know better, Carl Friedrich, Talcott Parsons, Sam Beer, Sam Huntington, Henry Kissinger; at Yale, Robert Dahl, Harold Lasswell, Karl Deutsch, Charles Lindblom, David Apter, Joe LaPalombara; at Stanford, Gabriel Almond, Marty Lipset, Robert Ward; at Columbia, Robert Merton (I had attended his class in 1950), Zbigniew Brzezinski, Severyn Bialer, and others."

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1985	10 May 1985	12 May 1985	New York US Arrowwood of Westchester Rye Brook	The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada

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